bilal safadi

Biography

Bilal Safadi (1997) is a filmmaker from Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights. He was born in Damascus to a Syrian mother from Sweida and a father from the occupied Golan Heights. He graduated from the Film & Television Department at Tel Aviv University and holds a professional diploma in photography from the Technion. His work draws on personal memory and lived experience, shaped through restrained narratives and an emotionally charged visual language. He has worked across directing, cinematography, editing, art direction, and sound, contributing to numerous student films and documentary projects, including works broadcast on Al Jazeera. Alongside his film work, he has experience as a theatre performer in productions staged across Israeli & Palestinian cities.